Impoundment extended in Desilets investigation

The Worcester District Attorney’s Office has been granted a four-month extension on the impoundment of court documents related to the death of Kathleen M. Desilets of Princeton.

Desilets, 65, was found a distance beneath a third-story window of her Worcester Road home at 2:45 a.m. Dec. 6. She was later pronounced dead at UMass Memorial Medical Center – University Campus, in Worcester. Last month, the state medical examiner disclosed the cause of death as blunt force trauma.

“The case is still under investigation,” Timothy J. Connolly, a spokesman for District Attorney’ Joseph D. Early Jr., said Tuesday.

Court documents on the case have been impounded at Leominster District Court since December. A district court judge granted an extension of the impoundment order until Oct. 10. Connolly said the DA’s office believes the October date will be the time and place to review the status of the investigation.

During Worcester Superior Court hearing in January, a prosecutor disclosed that a grand jury had been convened to investigate Desilets’ death. Grand jury proceedings are secret, and no information on its investigation has been available.